A number of open clusters, such as the Pleiades, Hyades or the Alpha Persei Cluster are visible with the naked eye.

Under the Trumpler scheme, the Pleiades are classified as I3rn ( strongly concentrated and richly populated with nebulosity present ), while the nearby Hyades are classified as II3m ( more dispersed, and with fewer members ).

Clusters such as the Pleiades, Hyades and a few others within about 500 light years are close enough for this method to be viable, and results from the Hipparcos position-measuring satellite yielded accurate distances for several clusters.

The most prominent open clusters are the Pleiades and Hyades in Taurus.

* Pleiades ( Greek mythology ), seven sisters who are companions of Artemis in Greek mythology

The Pleiades ( Krittika ) are particularly revered in Hindu mythology as the six mothers of the war god Murugan, who developed six faces, one for each of them.

Some scholars of Islam suggested that the Pleiades ( Ats-tsuraiya ) are the Star in Najm, which is mentioned in the Quran.

Recently, Francis and Anderson proposed that a systematic effect on Hipparcos parallax errors for stars in clusters biases calculation using the weighted mean, and gave a Hipparcos parallax distance of 126 pc, and photometric distance 132 pc based on stars in the AB Doradus, Tucana-Horologium and Beta Pictoris moving groups, which are similar in age and composition to the Pleiades.

Astronomers have made great efforts to find and analyse brown dwarfs in the Pleiades and other young clusters, because they are still relatively bright and observable, while brown dwarfs in older clusters have faded and are much more difficult to study.

The nine brightest stars of the Pleiades are named for the Seven Sisters of Greek mythology: Sterope, Merope, Electra, Maia, Taygeta, Celaeno, and Alcyone, along with their parents Atlas and Pleione.

Peleiades are often confused with the nymphs Pleiades.

The Hyades are unrelated to two other nearby stellar groups, the Pleiades and the Ursa Major Stream, which are easily visible to the naked eye under clear dark skies.

The tradition which ascribed to her the invention of the hexameter, was by no means uniform ; Pausanias, for example, as quoted above, calls her the first who used it, but in another passage he quotes an hexameter distich, which was ascribed to the Pleiades, who lived before Phemonoe: the traditions respecting the invention of the hexameter are collected by Fabricius.

To the Māori of New Zealand, the Pleiades are called Matariki and their heliacal rising signifies the beginning of the new year ( around June ).

Among the nicest of the reflection nebulae are those surrounding the stars of the Pleiades.

The Pleiades are an example of a cluster which has ' boiled away ' the H II region from which it formed.

Furthermore, occultations by the Moon of the bright star group the Pleiades, which are over 4 ° North of the ecliptic, occur during a comparatively brief period once every nodal period.

Other blue giants are merely misclassified hydrogen fusing dwarf stars, such as Spica or the Pleiades, their exceptional brightness making earlier astronomers believe they were elderly giants and the classification has simply stuck.

The best-known are the SPOT satellites flying the Vegetation instrument, the Topex / Poseidon, Jason-1 and Jason-2 oceanography satellites, the Argos system, Envisat and — in the near future — Pleiades satellites.

These are interpreted generally as a sun or full moon, a lunar crescent, and stars ( including a cluster interpreted as the Pleiades ).

The seven are probably either the Seven Sisters, the Pleiades star cluster, or perhaps Ursa Major, the Big Dipper.

The prominent open cluster Pleiades has been recognized as a group of stars since antiquity, while the Hyades forms part of Taurus, one of the oldest constellations.

He and five other prominent lawyers of Bardstown formed a debate club called The Pleiades Club.

Heliacal rising of Ngauponi, i. e. appearance of the Pleiades by the horizon over an hour before the Sun aproximately 12 days before the winter solstice announced we tripantu.

As Maia and the Pleiades are visible in the winter night sky along with the constellation Orion, the Greek myths tell of Maia and her sisters being pursued by the giant huntsman, and turned into doves to preserve their safety.

As the Pleiades are primarily winter stars, they feature prominently in the ancient agricultural calendar.

Dionysus was also revered at Delphi, where he presided over the oracle for three winter months beginning in November ( marked by the rising of the Pleiades ) while Apollo was away " visiting the Hyperboreans ".

230, Verses 8 – 11 ): " Contesting against Abhijit ( Vega ), the constellation Krittika ( Pleiades ) went to " Vana " the Summer Solstice to heat the summer.

The Pleiades would " flee mighty Orion and plunge into the misty deep " as they set in the West, which they would begin to do just before dawn during October – November, a good time of the year to lay up your ship after the fine summer weather and " remember to work the land "; in Mediterranean agriculture autumn is the time to plough and sow.

At large gatherings of several different family groups in the late spring and early summer, at about the time of the appearance of the Pleiades star group, the young women of the family began to be prepared for their coming initiation and travel to their new husbands lands.

IC 2602 ( and Caldwell 102 ) ( also known as the Theta Carinae Cluster or Southern Pleiades ) is an open cluster in the constellation Carina.

The Southern Pleiades ( IC 2602 ) has an overall apparent magnitude of 1. 9, which is 70 % fainter than the Taurean Pleiades, and contains about 60 stars.

Like its northern counterpart in Taurus, the Southern Pleiades spans a sizeable area of sky, approximately 50 arcminutes, so it is best viewed with large binoculars or telescope with a wide-angle eyepiece.

* Image Southern Pleiades ( IC 2602 )

Computer simulations have shown that the Pleiades was probably formed from a compact configuration that resembled the Orion Nebula.

Ages for star clusters can be estimated by comparing the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram for the cluster with theoretical models of stellar evolution, and using this technique, ages for the Pleiades of between 75 and 150 million years have been estimated.

However, Milbrath states that " a long cycle 30, 000 years involving the Pleiades ... may have been an effort to calculate the precession of the equinox.

Later Huna teachers have placed it firmly in the New Age, with Serge King referring to Hawaiians as originally aliens from the Pleiades and as remnants of the mythical advanced civilizations of Mu or Lemuria, and Pila Chiles associating the islands with chakras, vortexes and lay lines.

Karttikeya or Skanda, the leader of the heavenly armies, who was supposed to have been fostered by the six Knittikas or Pleiades ; and Ganesha ( lord of troops ), the elephant-headed god of wisdom, and at the same time the leader of the dii minorum gentium.

The calendric year may have begun at some point in the distant past with the first appearance of the Pleiades ( Tianquiztli ) asterism in the east immediately before the dawn light.

These databases combine the many catalogue designations an object might have, so that a search for the Pleiades will also find papers which list the famous open cluster in Taurus under any of its other catalog designations or popular names, such as M45, the Seven Sisters or Melotte 22.

Pleiades featured more enemies attacking at once, balanced by the fact that the player could now have two shots on the screen at one time instead of one.

In addition to appearances, characters from the Pleiades sometimes have names that indicate a mixed racial heritage.

Five all-female social clubs have been founded recently and are called the Bee, the Isis, the Pleiades, the Sabliere Society, and La Vie.

Five female final clubs ( The Bee, The Isis, The Sablière Society, The Pleiades Society, and La Vie ), three fraternities ( Sigma Chi, Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Alpha Epsilon Pi ), three sororities ( Kappa Kappa Gamma, Delta Gamma, and Kappa Alpha Theta ), and one additional all-female organization ( The Seneca ) have greatly expanded the presence of formal social organizations at the College.